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European Tour heads to Australia
WHY—Summer of Golf Gets Boost
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The Australian PGA Championship will reach
more than 500 million viewers globally and
be the richest tournament in Australia in
2015 thanks to a new co-sanctioning agreement
announced today with the European Tour.
The Championship, the oldest and most
prestigious professional tournament on the PGA
Tour of Australasia, will be played at the RACV
Royal Pines Resort from the 3 – 6 December 2015
and is expected to attract a number of the world’s
best players with the prize fund increasing to
AU$1.75M.
PGA of Australia Chief Executive Brian
Thorburn said sanctioning with the European Tour
would provide a greater reach with a new broadcast
agreement through Europe, Asia and the US.
‘This will be the highest purse in Australian
PGA Championship history and will position the
tournament more strongly on the international
stage with exposure to a greater broadcast platform
than any of our previous tournaments.’
In addition to the 1st place cheque of
AU$315,000 from RACV Royal Pines, the winner
of the 2015 Australian PGA Championship will be
granted exemption into the 2016 WGC-Bridgestone
Invitational and the 2016 BMW PGA Championship
at The Wentworth Club in the UK, and compete for
the AU$19.5M in prize money at those events.
Report courtesy of PGA Media
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